Famous aphorisms in foreign literary works

The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible".

－Bonapart Napoleon (French Emperor Napoleon)

Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

What destiny offers us is not disappointment. of wine, but the cup of opportunity.

-Richard Nixon (President of the United States)

Genius only means hard-working all one's life.

－Mendeleyev (Russian chemist Mendeleyev)

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

From a country’s advertisements you can tell See the ideals of this country.

－Norman Douglas (British writer Douglas)

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The only obstacle to the realization of tomorrow’s ideals is today’s doubt.

－Franklin Roosevelt (US President Roosevelt)

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. He was a weirdo until his idea came to fruition.

－Mark Twain (American writer Mark Twain)

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

The important thing in life is to set a great goal and be determined to achieve it.

－Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German poet and playwright Goethe)

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. yourself, then your footing is indeed unstable.

－Ibsen (Norwegian playwright Ibsen)

Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.

Ideals are guiding lights. Without ideals, there is no firm direction; without direction, there is no life.

－Leo Tolstory (Russian writer Leo Tolstoy)

Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. < /p>

Don’t give up your fantasy. When the illusion is gone, you can still survive, but even though you are alive, you are still dead.

－Mark Twain